(I borrowed that dress once. To wear in a school revue. I was playing a Macbeth witch. In an Ossie Clark dress. Dear God!) I don't have many of my mum's clothes but those I have are kept in protective dust-bags.
Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 8.34pm AEST11:34 12 min: "Oh Dear," says Tim from Hampshire, "This has all got depressingly familiar very quickly".
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David Cameron was accused of revealing his ill-suppressed Bullingdon Club instincts when he shouted at the Labour frontbencher Angela Eagle to "calm down, dear" as she berated him for misleading MPs at prime minister's questions.
He stepped down in 2011 and was replaced by his political protege in the area, Margaret Ritchie, who described McGrady as "not only my mentor and colleague but a very dear friend".
This was a huge polished marble bunker that displays every single gift ever given to both the late Great Leader and his son Kim Jong-il, the Dear Leader, the country's current head.
Best, Joe Dear Joe, I confess I had no idea who you were when your letter first arrived, but having looked you up, I discover that though you are a lesser Jew than me – la chose juive c'est aussi importante que la chose génitale (as Charcot would say – there might be some $$$$ in my extravagantly parenthesised bons mots reaching a wider audience).
Denis Thatcher famously muttered: "Be careful, dear, or you'll have a dead calf on your hands".
The footage and fall-out have been raked to within an inch of their lives for clues as to the cause of the disagreement, the front-running theory so far being that Jay Z wanted to go to Rihanna's after party (Rihanna of all people! My dear) and that Solange piled in on her sister's behalf, all the better to persuade him to get his sorry arse home.
Harold Macmillan, asked what the biggest challenge is for any leader, famously replied: "Events, my dear boy, events".
